Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have you are free from feminine interruptions. Between for and seven, the argument goes, it's time for entertainment and no one works anyway. But, during the afternoon the alarms and excursions involved in allowing girls to overrun the Houses are distinctly out of place, and must be specially forbidden. Perhaps, too, the Administrative Board fears that liberal rules might induce students "to forego the rich intellectual fare they would otherwise plan, and give themselves over to entertainment...
...their son Pierre, who had been lumbering in the U.S. for three years. After dinner the guests drank deep of rum, curaçao and whisky, and the fiddler struck up a lively tune. "Let's dance," a guest proposed. Everyone remembered that the village priest had forbidden dancing, but Pierre's father winked at his wife and she laughed and said: "Why not? Pierre does not return home every...
Under the NCAA's present program, obeyed by 370 colleges including the entire Ivy League, one important game is televised each week; all other colleges are forbidden to make TV contracts...
...Forbidden Apples. Poet Millay, who died in 1950, liked to say she suffered from "Epistophobia," but her old friend, Allan Ross Macdougall, has found enough of her correspondence to make Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay a tender self-portrait...
...When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings. In her senior year...